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 Chester, whose father, the Rev. Hugh Stowell, Rector of Ballaugh, in the Isle of Man, published a Memoir of Francis de la Pryme Geneste. That lamented youth, who died in 1826, aged twenty-one, was the fourth son of Lewis Geneste, Esq., by Catherine De la Pryme: the other sons were, Lewis, Charles, and (Rev.) Maximilian. Commander Lewis Geneste, R.N., was the son of Charles, and married Mary, a daughter of Maximilian.]

(5.) Major Abel Pelissier (p. 233), son of Abel Pelissier and Anne Nicholas, married Marie, daughter of Caesar de Choisy by Marie Gilbert de Chefboutonne.

(6.) Colonel Peter Petit (p. 233), married Madame Du Quesne, née Susanne Monnier. Died 1698.

(7.) Major Henry Foubert (pp. 233 and 317), distinguished himself at the Boyne; he was the son of a refugee who founded the Royal Riding Academy in London.

(8.) Colonel Rieutort (p. 233), died in 1726.

(9.) Brigadier Mark Antony Moncal (p. 233), served at Gibraltar in 1705.

(10.) Louis Hirzel, Comte D’Olon (pp. 233-4), was represented by his daughter, Mrs Le Marchant.

(11.) Lieutenant Gaspard Lanalve (p. 234), died in 1704.

(12.) Brigadier Samson De Lalo (p. 234), was killed at the battle of Malplaquet in 1703. Persons of his surname were connected with the families of Spicer, Lefebur, and Delpech. [The anxiety manifested to administer to his estate has given us some information as to the relations of General De Lalo. It appears that his full name was Samson De Vesc De Lalo. In 1709 (Nov. 29), his aunt, Mary, wife of Jacob de Drevon, in the kingdom of France, obtained letters of administration as his next of kin; but these were revoked in 1716 (June 14) in favour of John Le Clerc De Virly, attorney of Francis de Vesc De Lalo, brother of the deceased, and of Judith Roux, alias Judith de Vesc De Lalo (wife of Stephen Roux), sister of the deceased, both residing in France].

(13.) Antoine du Perrier (p. 234), a cavalry officer, also fell at Malplaquet; from him descended the Perriers of Cork.

(14.) Le Roch and De Bodt (pp. 234-5), Huguenot Engineers.

(15.) General Peter Carle (p. 235) died in 1730; his daughter was married to Admiral, the Hon. George Clinton, C.B., M.P.

(16.) Captain Samuel, Comte de la Musse (p. 235). Quick also names, with respect, the Marquis de la Musse. [In connection with this Marquis, Benoist, in his vol. v. p. 1000, mentions a singular finale to their durance in France, which was accorded to some Huguenots. There was a large number of noblemen and gentlemen, not only patient and stedfast in prisons and galleys, but also glorying in their lot. Their cases were known to many of the public, and their death would have evoked sympathy for their religion, and indignation against their persecutors. Many other noblemen and gentlemen, who had made a formal abjuration, had openly resumed the Protestant profession, and notwithstanding the sanguinary law against relapsed heretics, they were determined that they would not abjure a second time. The Government were not prepared to crowd their galleys and cells with these conspicuous witnesses to the truth. These persons were marched off under the escort of archers. An awful silence was maintained as to their destination. Fatiguing marches by land were continued from day to day, or they were put on board of some ship, the same mystery enshrouding the future. This ordeal in a few cases proved too severe, and prisoners who had braved some years of severity succumbed under it, and abjured the faith. They succumbed on the eve of deliverance. For the orders were to march them, perhaps from one end of France to the other, to the frontier, either of Holland, or of Germany, or of Switzerland, and there to set them at liberty, with a small sum of money for their journey to the nearest town. Or if they were sent off by sea, the captain of the ship was to land them on a foreign shore, having given them the money, and to obtain a certificate of their disembarkation from the nearest magistrate. In either case the exile was formally debarred from returning to France. The Marquis de la Musse, a young gentleman of solid piety, whose stedfastness during two years’ imprisonment had been admirable, was